Well, I think religion's aesthetic merits shouldn't be scoffed at. In an artistic, atmospheric or meditative sense, I'm sure it's quite soothing.
Thanks. That's a real bullshit thing to do over a personal spat. I hope he also stopped doing this after he mustered up the courage to admitting he was wrong.
https://the-orbit.net/greta/2014/08/07/richard-dawkins-apologizes-for-dear-muslima/ It's not directed at Watson specifically, but his comment didn't only insult her but women who speak up in western society overall.Can you link to his apology? I'd like to read it, I'm glad when people can admit to being wrong.
OLD ATHEISM: there is no god
NEW ATHEISM: we must preemptively defend objectively superior white western society against the rest of the world via military dominance
seriously whats wrong with the 19th century version of atheism, its straight up less vile and much more able to talk about philosophy
He is. Remember he defended a guy that had a creepy encounter with a woman in elevator? And his bigotry filled letter to her comparing her encounter with supposed plight of muslim women? Here, i'll post his letter
Still not a piece of shit?
Dragons and Santa are entities with well-defined and claimed bounds that can be analysed. A plausible god entity exists outside of the universe as we know it and we therefore have no knowledge of its plausibility. That said, claims of specific gods are more well defined, then those definitions can be analysed and you can have stronger disbelief in them.So why have you accepted definitions for god(s) that mean "improvable" but not dragons and Santa Clause?
You clearly don't care enough to even know the issue. No one said he cornered a woman in an elevator; another creep did that at one of his conferences. Dawkins was just super shitty and dismissive of the harassment she suffered.
You're right. I want to be disconnected from this 'new atheism'. I really don't want to even use the term.
You can see it's already apparent in the thread that people are associating 'atheist' with 4chan bullshittery. That we're acknowledging this as a group or a movement is solidifying prejudice against atheist people.
I guess I'll just add, for anyone ready to jump on atheists. A square is a rectangle, but a rectangle isn't necessarily a square. Atheists aren't fedora wearing, alt right, angry white dudes. There might be a fedora wearing internet meme obsessed loser who happens to be atheist, but that has nothing to do with being atheist, please, don't tie me or anyone who doesn't subscribe to god and religion as an alt right asshat.
https://the-orbit.net/greta/2014/08/07/richard-dawkins-apologizes-for-dear-muslima/ It's not directed at Watson specifically, but his comment didn't only insult her but women who speak up in western society overall.
Edit: Direct link to his post https://www.richarddawkins.net/2014/08/who-is-belittling-what/
Exactly but it's not adeist."atheist" means someone who is decidedly not a theist.
It's not a minority. Go to any Islamic Country, even progressive ones like Indonesia. Don't tell me they have such backwards legislation for any reason other than Islam.(Also please Religion has nothing to with race.) The people are inoccent but they have been indoctrinated into the religion they were brought up in. Hence we criticise the religion. Dont tell me large contingent of the USA's population are homophobic for a any reason other than Christianity. If you don't like conservatives ignoramuses in the deep south, then you shouldn't like it's theological foreign equavelent. Call out evangelical and conservatives in the USA and call out the barbaric theocracies in the middle East. Both are inextricably linked to Abrahamic monotheism. Please show me there is no link.Even after all Dawkin's white supremacist and misogynistic bullshit, some of which was linked in this very thread? (Given your generalization of a tiny fraction of a percentage point of extremists onto the religious understanding of billions of people, I shouldn't be surprised.)